An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual-assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, a spokesman for the special counsel’s office told The Atlantic. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” the spokesman, Peter Carr, told me in an email on Tuesday.
The special counsel’s office’s attention to this scheme—which was brought to the office by a woman claiming she herself had been offered money to make up sexual-harassment claims against Mueller—and its decision to release a rare statement about it indicates the seriousness with which the office is taking the purported scheme to discredit Mueller in the middle of an ongoing investigation.
The special counsel’s office confirmed that the scheme was brought to its attention by several journalists who were told about it by a woman alleging that she herself had been offered roughly $20,000 by a man claiming to work for a GOP activist named Jack Burkman “to make accusations of sexual misconduct and workplace harassment against Robert Mueller.”...The name Jack Burkman may not ring a bell, but he's a creepy Republican operative who's quite familiar with paying ladies for services rendered. As the article points out, he's also been involved in pushing some of the most evil crackpot conspiracies over the past few years. This won't end well for him and the other ratf*ckers (Jacob Wohl? Soon- to- be- indicted Roger Stone?) involved in this smear.
Here's Burkman trying to sell the smear:
Some sad news. On Thursday, November 1, at the Rosslyn— Jack Burkman (@Jack_Burkman) October 30, 2018
Holiday Inn at noon, we will reveal the first of Special Counsel Robert
Mueller's sex assault victims. I applaud the courage and dignity and
grace and strength of my client. pic.twitter.com/wZVQeHD45r
Burkman will be the sad one when the FBI cuffs him and frog marches him away. This reprehensible asshole needs some serious time in stir.
BONUS: Here's more on Burkman and the scheme.
2 comments:
I'm glad the news is breaking as it is, that it's being disclosed as a false scheme against Mueller right from the start. It was inevitable that the Republicans would go after him; we just didn't know when. And the Trump people thought this could be another October Surprise to damage the investigation and the voter support.
I imagine that Mueller has new charges to file but is waiting until after the election to make more of them. I hope that in the end, Mueller sends a whole raft of criminals from this administration up the river.
donnah - hopefully there aren't any suckers in the media that will run with this. In a sense, we're fortunate the other side is filled with morons like the ones who tried to pull this stunt off.
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